Sounds nice but after 6 yellow for me, but 6 orange, 4 green and 6 white for dea I got in trouble, having just 2 lokos, 4 whites, 5 purple, 6 blue, 8 reds, 6 black, 2 more yellow, 2 green, 3 orange. In the end DEA had Cal-Salt and Den-Pitt and plays 2+1+1. She makes a tie if she draw a loko to play 3 instead of 2+1 and she wins, if she blocks my sea-van, cause then I have to play 4 Sea-Cal and a 2er instead of 1 and 6 black

114:113

2. Port-Nash, SanF-Atl

Not bad and Dea starts with 6 orange and 6 purple. I guess she has east and play 6 red. Dea shocks me with 6 black. Heartattack! Didn't expect that. 6 green from me. 5 white from her. I took a very slow way via Atl-Nash-St.Louis-Kan-Den-Salt and 5 pink, having 4 orange, 5 blue, 4 whites and 2 lokos on hand I had to choose to draw a loko and play 6 blue, 6 orange on grey and 4 white (=37) or fight for longest with 5 orange, 5 blue, 2 white for hou-no and 3 to pho, (=26+10 for divided longest with 44) having the advantage, that dea must fight to divide longest and cannot lay more 6ers... but I thought, my longest is too easy blockable and choose the first solution. Dea connects via mon-ny-pitt and 4 red to dallas her tix 21+ny-dallas having two on hand and plays those 2 before my last 4 whites. Another present, would she have taken another loko and played 3, she wins with 2, so she presents me a Tie .

127:127

3. Winni-Hou, Cal-Pho

Again nice, I start ith 6 yellow, Dea 6 black, taking open whites. I play 5 white, she surprisingly 3 orange ElP-Pho. Then 3 yellow to SanF. I took open greens, I play 6 green, she answers 2 ElP-SantaFe. I have to look a long time for a route to connect both tix. I start with 4 pink to Omaha, 2 to Dul while Dea starts to connect Port-Nash with 3 white. She obviously has both Port. I play 5 yellow with 3 lokos, Dea 2 to Dallas und 4 red. Me 4 black to Winni and 4 blue. Now I pray, that she dont block 4 reds, she does not, plays 6 blue. Me the 4 reds, seeing she has 7 cards for 10 trains. The fight is for longest now, me 5 white out, she 3 to Phoe and 2 to SantaFe, but connectable with 3 Pho-Santa. I hope she does not smell my Ca-Pho, but she does and plays 4 white Sea-Cal. First idea: Hel-Cal, but if she has 3 of a kind, she can connect Pho-SantaFe and win longest and the game by 1. Does she have 3 of a kind? I guess yes and play 1 to Van, she blocks Van-Cal, I draw an open Loko, she 2 of a kind and i Connect Hel_la and win longest. Another gift was she didn't block 4 Okla-Den, what would have cost my Cal-Phoe.

121:103

4.Easy win with Van-Mon and Chi-NO against SanF-Atl and Cal-Salt, although she clever made a 9-mover with start into a 10-mover.

5. SanF-Atl, Ny-Atl (Van-SF)

Dea surprisingly took 6 orange with 3 lokos (I had 9 oranges in the end) and 6 black, I found a low-hope-11-mover with 6 green on grey, 6 whites, 6 yellow, but she having Hel-La, Dul-Hou finished in 9 moves with start, so no chance.

6. SanF-Atl, Den-Pitt

Dea has 3 tix and starts with 6 oranges, me 6 black, she 3 black LA-Pho. Shit, 3 tix and west! Me 3 Purple to SanF and 6 green. She 3 yellow to ElP. Me 2 to NO, havind just 2 red and 3 blue. She 5 yellow to Okla. I'm not happy with my colors, cause I have 7 white, needing 5 for Salt, having 6 orange, needing 4 to Atl, but 4 lokos left, 1 green, 2 red, 3 blue. First 4 orange to Atl, Dea 4 red to Den. To get longest with 44 I need 12 moves...too long. I try to go in her way, play 2 TO-Pitt, Dea 4 white TO-Chi. ok, I pay 3 lokos and 1 green for Hel-Den! If she can 3 red and 9 purple, I loose Den-Pitt, but i hurt her. She 2 green Chi-St.Louis, me 3 red, she 2 to Kan. Me 5 white, connection to Pitt, having 3 blue and 1 white left, she connects Kan-Den and 6 purple, having 5 cards on hand and 6 trains. If she has 4 of a kind, we divide longest wit my 3 blue to Mon, having almost the same trackpoints. But she hasn't and starts to draw. I draw an open loko to get longest all alone. She draws a sec time, me 4 blue to Cal, she draws for the third time, finding nothing, win for me against LA-Chi, Hel-LA, Den-ElP.

Hard games, most of the games with bad start for me and nice presents in the end. I told u, u only can win, if u have luck .

and so my travel in Fusion ends.
It was a wonderful tournament that ended with a fantastic series.
I had difficult combos, but sometimes they helped me in avoid the block attempts by Trucker.
Thanks for the games and good luck in the final!

I think definitely my esteemed opponent got really lucky tonight . the 3 games he won were that lucky draw and twice Mon-Van in the last 2 games against crap combo's on my part, where finishing fast nearly always guarantees a win.

In the flip side of the coin, I blew 2 games because I can not think for whatever reason.
I have never played that fast in a tourney, I need some ADD pills.

Like Louis said, I did not deserve a 3-3.
Van Mon games are winners, because Bean doesnt lay a track before 42 cards, left me some space...Especially when he had Van Fe - Cal Slc ! And Win Hou Dul Hou is not that bad either !

I was outplayed in game 1, lucky in game 2, then I sucked in games 3 and 4...

But with a 10 second focus, which was really not possible, I could have gone away with a 4-2 too.
4-2 for Bean or 3-3 didnt change anything anyway.
Hence more regrets here.
TAG will be decider and therefore will be exciting !

Well, in reading the Bean & Sysyphus report about their match (3-3), let me report on the other match that went with a score of 3-3.
Yaelka and I played AAT. And while there was a lot of jostling back and forth in Bean-Sysy, Elka and I pretty much agree each of us held serve on our matches and was not a whole lot the other could have done to sway the games.

In first game, Yaelka correctly blocked me out of France. Good win for her. 76-522nd game Legendary Asia, I had superior tix, and won that. 122-1113rd game, USA, Yaelka had Van-Mon Atl-NY, against my Sea-LA-Mia. She finished in 9 plays, leaving me with a 5er unplayed. 121-111.4th game was EU, and I had great ticket combo and she did not. She almost pulled it off. 122-118.5th game was Big cities. Battle there was decided when she took 4 for Chicago, making me go around. 112-1046th game was 1910. I had 3 tickets with lots of points. She drew and hit one to make it close in end. She wonders if she had blocked Las Vegas ... but I was prepared to go around if I had to. 135-126

match was good test for each. And starter won each time.

Makes for wonderful Final TAG match. LOL must win to advance. BTB advances with a ties or a win.

I had better route and Trucker better tics, I made little blocks at chi-pit area, but went too far, that's why i lost points in tracks and couldn't get Truck anymore.

Game 2 USA: 61-82
Sea-NY/SSM-Okl vs. Port-Nas/Win LR

I played badly at west and was shut out from Port, then I played all in blocking NY and managed well after bad start.

Game 3 and 4: EU 122-97 & 128-106

Truckerteller had decent combos in both ones (Bre-Pet with apetite) against my Cad-Sto in 3rd, game was settled after 1st move when Trucker got 8er. 4th game I had Ess-Kie and War-Smo, I got all big routes, but Trucker's 3 tics and longest was unable to reach.

Game 5: USA 113-123
Boa-Mia/Mon-NO vs. Dul-EP/LA-NY

Now game were I got the tics better. Trucker was trying to distract in north about having big ones, the it seemed that he's trying to block me in NY. I had locos enuf to build 5 black in the end, thou I had done black 6er earlier. That made my game.

Game 6: EU 99-119
Par-Wie/Ber-Buc? vs. Bre-Pet/Sto-Wie

Now Good tics and 8er for me, thou with 2 extra locos, Truck started to laid tracks in front of me and made my way tricky, but eventually I made it through with one station and was lucky to save longest, while Trucker was unable to build in last move because of 2 extra in tunnel route.

1) CH : 110-97
2) USA : 119-118
3) BigC: 106-119
--------- played until this point on Saturday, in the meantime we lost our TAG with 2-4 which meant I needed one win out of the 3 remaining games
4) 1910: 123-77
--------- (after this game the match, clash and fusion cup was decided, so we played the last two games just for fun)
5) Asia: 102-97
6) Mega: 145-110

Very nice games, especially games 2, 3 and 4 were very exciting.

Thanks Elka for the great match and particularly for the flexible scheduling again.

Thanks as well to all the teams and players in Fusion Cup, it was a great tournament with an interesting idea / format which definetely was the right idea.
Furthermore thanks to our great team dea, Hecki, Mas and Truck and and to all the TD's and assistants in the background.

I had 6 black and Cromze 6 orange / 4 green. Hecki starts 5 yellow then 3 La Phoe. Since I have La Chi, Hecki has Lany or Hel La.
Cromze has nice locos, but I have to wait to find the right way to make La Chi. I threw 6 more black on grey, while dea designs her path peacefully in the east.
Hecki goes through KC St Louis, exactly what we've been waiting. We block Ny then the 4 white to toronto.
I could have been blocked a bit everywhere, I guess they happened to not have what they needed to do so. Cromze gets longest
Nice win for us.

I started quitely with 3 Mon Tor, then plan on a block of dea. I secure my tix first, I have time, dea needs to refill her hand after an offensive start. We blocked ATl Raleigh, then wait for her in Charleston, and finish it up with 3 green on LR.
Cromze waited a long time before playing his tickets, and it paid off !
Good timing for us, and I thought it was nicely planned.

Cromze was screwed fairly early with Hecki playing Denver Santa Fe on his second move. I had one loco the whole, and a couple bad inspiration from us killed us. Me Laying 2 to Kc then Cromze losing longest.
We still had a chance despite 2 tickets dead with a good fiend, but didnt happen.
Better play by them.

Always a pleasure to play with the monsters, and even bigger pleasure to play with Cromze !
I am happy Cromze could be included in such an adventure with us, that was definitely a good pick by me !